out of the box
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- (idiomatic) See outside the box.
- (idiomatic, of a product) Immediately, without intervention from the customer.
- This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.
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- 2002, Berger, despite his concentrated seriousness, is quite capable of breaking out of the box, seeing things in unexpected new ways — Peter Wollen in London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 7, dated 4 April 2002
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(idiom) immediately, without intervention from the customer
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